Too Many Magpies - Softcover

On “Balancing on the Edge of the World’:

A stunning debut collection

On “Balancing on the Edge of the World’:

Impressive collection... She finds and plucks out important and remarkable moments from the otherwise ordinary. It is quite a skill.

Elizabeth Baines is a superb stylist – a latter-day fabulist in fact – and her writing reminded me of Chekhov's in that it was spare and paid attention to the subtleties of everyday experience.

Elizabeth Baines has led me through a myriad of seemingly ordinary moments and invested them with extraordinary power... It is the microscopic quality of Elizabeth Baines' eye that makes each and every one of these stories so special.

'One of those books I had to force myself to put down just so the experience of reading it wouldn't end.

Each story strikes to the heart.

An innovative and committed writer of distinctly pure talent.

Moving and compelling